Lara Sarkissian is a sound artist, electronic composer, DJ, and filmmaker born and based in San Francisco, California. Sarkissian is a co-founder of Club Chai, a record label and curatorial project that artistically hybridizes non-Western sonic and visual worlds among contemporary Western culture. She contributes regular shows to NTS radio.

Lara Sarkissian’s electronic music interweaves experimental techniques from dance and ambient with Armenian instrumentation and sampling. Her 2018 debut EP DISRUPTION is an electronic soundtrack to an imagined fictional film inspired by stories from Armenian mythology and ties these legends to encounters with familial spirits. She produces scores for multi-channel and spatial installations and video. Her work through ISM Hexadome has been exhibited at the Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gray Area Art and Technology Festival.

Lara Sarkissian’s short film Ir Hokin Hangeest screened at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2017 as part of a V-A-C Foundation exhibition, with a live score performed by the artist herself.

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